August 2010 Archives

The Class of 2000s S. Katherine Laughon is co-author on a study that links the high rate of C-sections to impatience on the part of mothers and their health care providers. Laughon is a postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award fellow at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Published online in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the study’s findings have been picked up by media outlets including USA Today and the Los Angeles Times.

After briefing members of Virginia’s Senate Finance Committee on the impact that health care reform can have on the state’s teaching hospitals, Retchin spoke with Charlottesville’s NBC29. Retchin, who is CEO of the VCU Health System, also completed his housestaff training at the medical school.

In the Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010, edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Anton J. Kuzel, M.D., the Harris-Mayo Chair in Family Medicine, took a look at the unbalanced equation that awaits health care consumers in 2014.

In the newspaper’s commentary section, he cautions that the implementation of federally mandated health care reforms will bring “30 million newly insured Americans … searching for medical homes in a field where demand already outstrips supply.”

Kuzel acknowledges that, “It won’t be possible over the next four years to train sufficient numbers of family physicians and internists to handle the anticipated explosion in patient volume.” And so he proposes the patient centered medical home as a model of care that can deliver better health to patients at a long-term cost savings.